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25.6.2009 - Mr. Teemu Rissanen will deliver a paper on the user-centric identity layer for the Internet, at the World e-ID Conference in Sophia-Antipolis, France. The conference is held in September 22 - 25. Register now!

30.7.2009 - Mr. Jarkko Majava will deliver a paper on Pan-European eID interoperability strategies, initiatives and practices, at the Net-ID 2009 Conference in Berlin. Net-ID 2009 is held betwee 1st and 2nd October 2009, at the Steigenberger Hotel in Berlin.

Your i-Name is your persistent address in the internet.

It is also your Privacy aware identity online

An iName is a single, unified communications address that gives you one digital identity for all your online communications and transactions. It is a very advanced and new digital addressing protocol and document format technology that protects your privacy, Internet based relationships with services, organizations and persons, and your personal information from spam, online fraudsters, identity theft and other unwanted intrusions to your integrity online. With an iName address as your Internet identity, your privacy and data security is in a safe place.

iName XRI's are identifiers designed for providing cross-domain digital identity for persons and organisations. XRI stands for Extensible Resource Identifier and it comes in two forms: iNames correspoding machine-readable iNumbers. iNames are like Internet domain names as they carry a human language name, and they can be reassignable in case the name or service provider changes. Machine-readable iNumbers on the other hand, are never reassigned as they form the persistent linking between a person or oraganisation and the resource it is attached to.

Your iName service provider acts like your online “identity ISP”, just like your Internet ISP acts with your Website. Your iName enables you to share resources and data across domains, as well as web-based or phone-based applications in a simple, secure way, using XDI (XRI Data Interchange) other well established open standards technology like Web Service Security.

The registration of iNames is done by an authorised and accredited Registrars which operate according to the Global Service Specifications, and conform to the policy requirements set in the specifications.

Use with OpenID

When an XRI iName is used as an OpenID identifier, it is immediately resolved to the synonymous iNumber, which is the OpenID identifier stored by the relying party. Both the user and the relying party are protected from the user's OpenID identity ever being taken over by someone else since even if the user iName is reassigned to another person, the OpenID relying party will always stay in relation with the persistent owner of the corresponding iNumber, not with the old iName. Compared with URL identifiers that are based on reassignable DNS names, use of XRI iNames provides stronger future-proof and anti-impersonation protection.

For the more technically oriented...

There is a very concise and well written "in a Nutshell" explanation on iNames, iNumbers, XRI's and XDI's written by the original creator of the XRI technology, Drummond Reed, at www.equalsdrummond.name

Your iName enables you to share resources and data across domains, as well as web-based or phone-based applications in a simple, secure way. It also enables you, your business or your community to use an identity service that puts you connected via email, Internet, telephone or SMS using the same address, persistently and without privacy concerns. iNames protects your personal and private data on a fundamental protocol level by providing access policy control to every data link that forms your “web” of personal data.

Some iName benefits include:

• Provides: 1 address for everything, 1 adress for life, 1 way to authenticate, 1 way to control privacy
• The user is in full control of her identity data and other information she wants to disclose or protect online
• The user has full control over access to this data
• The user can keep her personal data always up-to-date in one single secure place, which can be addressable from anywhere in the Internet
• Provides a simple and yet personalised communication tool
• Provides strong layered security for safeguarding identity and personal data
• Provides access to a unified address book that is addressable from anywhere in the Internet, and by any browser
• Gives the user a persistent unique identifier for the Internet and other open identity technologies, such as OpenID and Information Cards, without privacy implications or concerns
• Gives added value to other open identity services such as OpenID by providing a persistent identifier that does not change over time, unlike a URL address that is linked to a DNS name, not to the person or organisation.

In the future, iNames can also offer unmatched usability for DRM (Digital Rights Management) by providing persistent linking with the person owning the DRM and the content protected by the DRM. In DRM, iNames can dissolve the problems related to DRM binding with the DRM service, the device (GSM, SIM, other hardware, or the application (e.g. media player)

We offer iNames services for government, tele communications, enterprise, community organisations and consumer customers to register their iNames at any iBroker and at any XRI registrar and registry level needed.